“This decision confirms that a geopolitical monopoly of the CIS area is actively pursued in order to contain Russia,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
“The European Union and NATO are building a coalition against Moscow, as Hitler did,” the Russian Foreign Minister said on Friday. Sergei Lavrov at a press conference following talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeihun Bairamov in Baku on Friday. However, in Lavrov’s words, Russia does not see any danger in Ukraine and Moldova gaining candidate status for EU membership, “although there are no illusions that the EU will abandon its Russophobic policies soon.”
“When World War II broke out, Hitler united a significant number – if not most – of European countries under his banner for a war against the Soviet Union. “Today, the EU and NATO are acting in a similar way, building a modern coalition of the same kind for a struggle and more or less a war against Russia,” he was quoted as saying by TASS.
The Russian Foreign Minister, however, insisted that Moscow sees no danger “The EU is not a political bloc like the North Atlantic Alliance,” she said. The development of its relations with any willing country does not create threats or dangers for us “.
According to Sergei Lavrov, Moscow “has no illusions that the EU will change its attitude towards Russia or abandon Russophobic policies.”
“The European Union continues to make it clear that it does not implement – and does not intend to implement – the existing agreements between Russia and the EU nations. It does not want to carry out the tasks described in the the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. “All of this has been left behind and is a thing of the past,” he said.
“This decision confirms that a geopolitical monopoly of the CIS area is actively pursued in order to contain Russia,” said a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry on enlargement. Maria Zakharova.
“By deciding to grant Ukraine and Moldova candidate status, the European Union confirms that it continues to actively exploit the territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS / composed of countries of the former Soviet Union) at geopolitical level to use it. “to ‘limit’ Russia,” he added.
“They do not think about the negative consequences of such a step …”, he stressed in a statement.
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